Emerson uncovered the fundamental conception when he declared that character is our only definition of freedom and power.
There was no teaching of reading, writing or arithmetics, but the fundamental conceptions were taught to develop intellectual and motoric abilities.
Nevertheless, the thinking of physicists today is conditioned to a high degree by Newton's fundamental conceptions.
Its impersonality is the fundamental conception of the System.
We are examining one of our fundamental conceptions of it.
Despite these variations, liberal thought does exhibit a few definite and fundamental conceptions.
One chief problem is the competition between different fundamental conceptions of the division of social product into measurable or theorisable concepts.
It was a design worthy of an acute thinker like Aristotle, to search for these fundamental conceptions.
The object of the internal sense, the soul, or, in accordance with our fundamental conceptions of it, thinking nature.
That is, men whose fundamental conception of scientific philosophy is pointed in an entirely different direction from all of the orientations we know.